Also technically you can get banned from Discord for using third-party clients. Some people have used it and gotten away, some people weren't so lucky.
Mind you, Discord's ToS do not specifically mention third party clients at any point. They do say that they can ban your account for whatever reason, however.
I wish so much that 3rd party clients weren't directly against the TOS of Discord. I sorta miss the old days where it seemed like anyone could hook up to MSN/Yahoo/AIM.
Warning: alternative Discord clients will get you banned. I got my account permanently banned for no other reason other than using a 3rd party client, even though it (Ripcord) had insanely better UX.
Discord is happy to ban people for anything. They even stop people for using alternative clients. If you care about your account, do not mess with discord.
Discord doesn't ban third party clients, only illegal stuff like spamming.
From the people at Discord:
> I run the infrastructure department at Discord which includes our anti-spam engineering team --
Just want to +1 what you're saying and confirm that we are never trying to ban third party clients (that aren't self-bots). Honestly, it would be a waste of our time and basically do nothing good for Discord.
This is really cool however I’m worried about getting banned from discord using for using your service as I believe it’s not authorized on discord to use third party client
Cool project, has discord changed its policies on third-party clients?
I mention this because while it's of course possible to make interoperable things, Discord has a nasty habit of trying to shut them down, so publicity may not be your friend here
That's kinda funny. I assume when discord wouldn't have banned all the wonderful lightweight alternative clients that existed they would only get a small portion of the hate today
Are third party clients allowed? One thing that has made me avoid discord and most of these sorts of chat apps is that they really hate users having customized clients. There's a lot of cool features that people have made for unauthorized discord client modifications which are technically forbidden which is not ideal.
> There are alternate Discord clients, and — unlike Slack — Discord doesn't try to actively prevent people from writing alternate clients against their API.
It's again TOS and people have copped bans for using alternate clients.
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